Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

danielrachael Neill Bloomkamp's Elysium is a good science fiction film which has a lot of social commentary themes going on like his previous endeavor District 9. In this instance it is a look at the economic injustices that he decides to play out. The film is set on a space station orbiting Earth and our lead, played by Matt Damon lands there to save his own life. He realizes the difference between the rich who inhabit the ship and the not so well off and decides to fight the injustice. The film looks stunning and Bloomkamp's visual style can easily be distinguished. Matt Damon is adept in playing a mercenary and Jodie Foster is especially delicious playing against type.

consta-44821 It reminded me the latest Mad Max movie - pure action without any unnecessary dramatic/emotional dialogues. I also loved the cast! The ending is a little bit strange, but I enjoyed the movie nevertheless and would recommend it to everyone. Don't listen to the haters, they have bad taste.

diogomanuel This was a nice surprise as I didn't even know this movie existed before watching it on TV. The main characters and the futuristic science fiction made me watch it.I think they could have better addressed the issues of an over-populated and diseased Earth (that can indeed resemble our future planet). From a macro story of the Earth's population, the movie focus too quickly on the micro story of two or three main characters. The golden Paradise of Elysium is poorly shown, it almost felt like there wasn't any money left to show it properly as we only get glimpses of what is going on in there... This is in my opinion the biggest mistake of the movie.The whole story is a good one, heartwarming even, but sometimes skips logical steps perhaps to prevent the movie from being too long but also making it just one more science fiction story that we enjoy watching but will hardly 'revisit' from time to time.The acting was great, I felt sorry about Matt Damon's anger and troubled life. It is definitely worth watching but not good enough to be remembered.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "Elysium" (2013)This action film has been shot in Summer 2011. The screenplay is a mess of a technological over-side proportions. Director Neill Blomkamp found an overwhelming success with "District 9" (2009) with the U.S. domestic audience on alien invasion restraint in an South African township. Here the director gets a production budget boost from 30 to 115 Million Dollars through producers Bill Block and Simon Kinberg. The resulting footage has been devastating. A major cast with leading Hollywood actors Matt Damon as the hard-working factory employee Max and Jodie Foster as the corporation over-looking ice lady nemesis, do not meet in the storyline, to find some empathic character identifying moments of revelation, instead Writer/Director Neill Blomkamp writes the character of Kruger, portrayed by Sharlto Copley as megalomaniac with the primitive states in language and actions, to lead to a concluding metal gear fist fight between Max & Kruger, which sounds amazing, even has some daring camera motion by technically-competent to creative-talented cinematographer Trent Opaloch with otherwise hand-held directed wasting coverage. Two years in a doomed pit of post-production to an August 9th 2013 release after a two-times push back of release date; enriched, enhanced, tweaked, twisted digitally to make some emotional impact in a world everyone already knows between earners and spenders to finish with a fairly decent editorial by Julian Clarke & Lee Smith, who do not linger to long in any scene in order to reveal the exploitation of talent in characters of no means as Julio & Frey.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)